Dr. Alexis Antoniades is a Niehaus Fellow for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University (2012-2013) and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is also a member of the European Union Program at Princeton University.

In his research, Antoniades studies the economies of countries endowed with natural resources, mainly the Gulf countries, and uses massive micro-level data to answer questions in International economics. He is the recipient of a three-year, $1,050,000 grant from the Qatar National Research Fund to undertake the first micro-level study on the economies of the Gulf countries. At Georgetown, prof Antoniades teaches courses in International Finance, Macroeconomics, Money and Banking and the Global Financial System.

A CASP/Fulbright Scholar, Antoniades holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. Between 2001 and 2002, he served as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.